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PostPosted: 10 Jun 2009, 03:15 
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Ok, go ahead, giggle at the noob to the forum hehe.

Just a quick question. I am planning on getting the th2go digital and 3 Samsung lcd's. Been reading as much as possible today on the matter, and thought I read where you cant use a GTX295? Tell me I'm wrong please. And are these LCD's worthy.

Thanks Tom

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PostPosted: 10 Jun 2009, 05:13 
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Don't know about the LCDs, personally. But the GTX 295 worked fine:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/WS_and_WTH_Benchmarking_(Core_i7_920_and_GTX_295)

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PostPosted: 10 Jun 2009, 14:08 
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Thanks Ibrin. I checked the lists and went with the Dell 2209WA's.

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PostPosted: 11 Jun 2009, 12:02 
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As I wait for the LCD's to be shipped (Dell est' 6/23/09), is there a preffered dual link cable I should be ordering? Would like to get the best 3 available in the 6' range.

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PostPosted: 11 Jun 2009, 12:25 
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Just use the cables that come with the Dell screens. They're perfectly suitable. Unless you're one of these people who subscribe to the idea that spending $200 on a $10 cable because it's 'oxygen free copper with 24ct. gold connectors'. I might be willing to think that high quality wires have an impact on top-end analogue audio (poor quality wires certainly do) but there comes a time when prices go up for no reason. But with digital signals like DVI or HDMI... either the signal is there, or it isn't. There are no half-measures. Monster cables, for example, are probably the greatest rip-off ever. I can get HDMI cables for £5 that give exactly the same performance as £100 Monster HDMI cables.


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PostPosted: 11 Jun 2009, 14:09 
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Yeah, thats what I thought. Thank you sir.
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PostPosted: 11 Jun 2009, 15:29 
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No problem. :)


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PostPosted: 11 Jun 2009, 16:03 
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Shop from Monoprice.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10209

I outfitted my entire office, well over a dozen cables (may of which were 25 foot) for about $120. This included shipping and tax. Cables are top-notch. You can also get really short DVI cables to go between the TH2Go and your monitors.


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PostPosted: 16 Jun 2009, 12:03 
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Sorry to bother you guys again but. The Dells are "on the truck for delivery" today, and I have spent a few hours on here reading the different threads, but it seems a lot of them are getting a little dated, and scattered. What video drivers do I want for my XP32 partition and what video drivers do I need for my Vista64 partition? OS's are on different drives. I only race (iRacing) on XP. Specs below.

Thanks Tommy T.


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PostPosted: 17 Jun 2009, 03:13 
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Hot damn, what a difference. Hooked em up, installed the Matrox drivers and she took right off. Still have some learning to do, and can see now I will have to drop off the "more shadows" if I'm not alone on the track. But she runs beautifully. All shadows and ingame goodies on max, and picking up 4X Multi, and 16XAF plus other enhancements in nhancer. Averages between 85-135 in the SC at Milwaukee, and 70-110 in the truck there alone. The 185.85's in XP seem to be working fine so far. Going to start looking around for some good lcd mounting and get that all set up next. Thank for the help everyone. Cheers.

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